Explosives and the Environment

What you will learn Environmental concerns are now high on the political agenda. Global concern over environmental issues has increased substantially in recent years. The 2002 world environment summit in Johannesburg outlined the importance of sustainable development and its relationship to environmental protection. The development, production, use and disposal of explosives can have detrimental effects on the natural environment. Therefore the entire life cycle of explosives needs to be managed more sustainably in response to the global agenda. This course will highlight some of the effects explosives have on our environment and also the mitigation measures which can be used to reduce the overall long term environmental impacts.